Student Relfections

ELA

by Paul Bonina & Ben Reitz 

So far, we've been doing lots of fun things in ELA.  We've been doing things like IXL, Growing Your Vocabulary, Newsela and vocabulary tests every week and a half.  In IXL, we've been working on the I's which work on our commas and punctuation.  In "Growing Your Vocabulary" we've been learning our new vocabulary.  In Newsela we've been reading stories about people who have accomplished many things.

I think the Pioneers have been doing lots of fun things with the teaching aspect.  The IXL has been manageable, the "Growing Your Vocabulary" books have been very helpful, and the activities have been enjoyed!  Especially Kahoot and Quizlet Live! Quizlet Live is an online team activity consisting of 12 questions; first team to score 12 in a row wins!  Kahoot is a solo activity, also performed on the iPad, in which players try to answer questions correctly to earn points, the faster the answer, the more points you earn.  In conclusion, ELA has been fun and looks to improve in the future.

Both Pioneers and Explores are working on two narrative writing projects!  One is a version of the classic Gingerbread story, and the other is a narrative based on an animation of a snowman.  We will be analyzing story elements so that we can add these elements into our own writing.

Dillon is commenting on an interesting article he read.

SCIENCE

by Harmony Melendez-Torres & Kylie French

In Science class these past few weeks, we have been working on sky viewers to tell whether we are spinning or if the sun is.  The answer is that we are spinning.  Recently we have been working on toys from history and if they are as popular now as they were back then and if they are good toys or bad toys.

Observing the Earth's Rotation 

MATH
by Kayla Aubut & Hannah Le

 In Math class we are working on "Rules of Divisibility" which is which numbers you can

divide by. We have learned the rules for each number, like for example: the rule of

divisibility for the number 3 is you have to add all of the digits and then if that number is

divisible by 3, it is. This is a picture of our tables of divisibility in our notebooks:

We are also working on "Beans and Scoops." First, we had to guess how many 1/8 cups it would

take to fill the jar. Everyone gave their predictions, and it turned out to be 18 scoops. In the

jar, there were 117 kidney beans, so we did the division 117 divided by 18 = 39 r 9. A few students

got a scoop of kidney beans to count. Some people got 41, some got 42, and some got 38.

Then came the lima beans.

So we made our predictions on how many 1/8 cups it would take to fill the jar, and it turned out to

be the same as the kidney beans! 18 1/8 cups. In the jar, there were 411 lima beans in total. We

divided 411 by 18 and it was 22 r 25. So we counted the average scoop, and everyone got an

answer in the 20's. Then Sra. Crawford brought out a bigger jar of kidney beans that had 1,508

beans in it. We all made a poster dividing 1,508 by 39 for the average scoop of kidney beans.

Here is one of the posters:

We had a whole gallery of posters! And all of (or most of us) got the quotient of 38 r 26. We had a

lot of fun on this project. And I think our classes had fun too. We can't wait to look at all the posters in

our wonderful math gallery.